Brexit means Brexit – but what does that actually mean? To understand the EU referendum results, we first have to accept its irreversibility.
Donald Trump’s vision of a new American hegemony is a threat to world peace. But not because he opposes trade liberalisation.
Before the end of 2017, the post-World War II global order of US hegemony will run its course, and authoritarianism will drive domestic policy.
How neoliberal doctrine undermined the Obama administration and ushered in the age of Trump.
The Trump victory is not the rejection of neoliberalism but the necessary outcome of the neoliberal transformation, and all its destructive excesses.
On Thursday 23 June 2016 the Far Right achieved its most important victory in British electoral history.
Of the many strange aspects of the referendum debate is how little stress the Remain camp gives to EU protection of human rights.
The exit of Britain could contribute not to disintegration but a consolidation of authoritarian governance in the European Union.
There is an obvious reason that no Tory politician would cite the Social Charter as a reason for the British electorate to vote to remain in the EU.
London's poisonous air kills thousands of people every year. It's perfectly possible to stop this.
On the first day of 2016 trading the FTSE 500 index nosedived. This surprised perennially optimistic business commentators, but will not surprise those who read the EREP review of the UK economy in 2015. Read part two here.
Thus, the ultra-flexible UK labour market (“with employers in the driving seat”, in the government’s own charming words) – to be enhanced by the repressive new Trade Union Act – has had the effect of causing productivity to fall. Read part one here.
